Bandwidth is a commodity. High price of international bandwidth traffic surely will cut ISPs’ revenue. Consumers are switching from DSL to fiber-optic and now want to view rich media content like Youtube and live streaming.

Youtube

To cope with bandwidth demand , TM already placed many Youtube caching server in Malaysia.  No matter how many times you press the play button and choose high definition streaming -  the caching server will supply you the cache.  During AAG cable downtime recently, popular Youtube videos streaming fast like always. This is because of local caching servers are placed locally in  Malaysia.

Caching URI supplying feed

Source of feed : o-o.preferred.tm-jhb1.v1.lscache4.c.youtube.com is located in Malaysia. Here is the trace

Caching server traceroute

Another mirror of AKAMAI already in Brickfields -  For example Fashion tv streaming source is served from  BRF Data center Kuala Lumpur.

Fashion TV

Akamai BRF (We are still within TM's network)

There is high probability that these servers are placed in level 10 BRF IDC, early this year BRF announced that connectivity has been upgraded to 1Gpbs. TM will need have to upgrade soon because the current usage almost reaching full utilization.

Brickfields IDC bandwidth utilization August 2011

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SKMM or Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has released an official order to block access to file sharing web sites to all ISPs in Malaysia. The order given based copyright grounds.
P1 Wimax provider uploaded the official letter to its wall on social media site – Facebook.  The move is quite drastic and will surely enrage internet users in Malaysia.

Access Denied

The blocking will be done via DNS resolution query ;  null route the query to deny access.  To  bypass the restriction simply  using  this method.
Many users use file sharing to send huge files to be distributed to friends or clients abroad. Since email transmission is impractical (25MB attachment max) and Anonymous FTP is no longer provided by web hosting provider due to security and abuse, users may have to use other file sharing services not listed in the list.

SKMM Letter

SKMM Letter 2

Do you agree with this move? Should they block pornography sites instead of file sharing web site?  Leave your comment down below.

Credit : Amanz.my
Source : P1 Cares

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On April 15 – Apnic – The Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), which is the organization responsible for distributing IP address (IP) in most of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific announced that they no longer have IP address to be distributed.  Chinanet Fujian Province Network apparently the last company to snatch half a million of IP addresses allocated for Internet Service Providers (ISP).

APNIC

The only solution is to accelerate the implementation of IPV6 but many ISPs especially in Asia pacific region is still not IPV6 ready.  IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet. IPv6, on the other hand, uses 128-bit addresses and supports a virtually unlimited number of devices.

APNIC is holding 16.7 million IPv4 addresses, but the body still has reserves for other usage.  According to Apnic the exhaustion due to IPv4 the growth in fixed and mobile networks experienced in the region.

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Has Google finally decided Malaysia to be one of location to host their servers in the Asian region? Our previous Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi met with Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Davos conference in Switzerland in 2008 and the outcome was positive. Naturally Malaysia is the best choice since formed the highest group of Google users in South-East Asia. Malaysia has lower energy tariffs compared to India or Singapore and outside the ring of fire – certainly removed Asian countries like Taiwan from the list.

Google

Teliti International is currently building and hiring NOCS engineer and specialists. Together with Cisco they are building DC in Bandar Enstek Technology Park in Negeri Sembilan, which is close to KLIA and 120,000 sq ft in size and claimed the biggest Data enter in Asia. The state-of-the-art centre is designed to have minimal levels of energy consumption and a low environmental impact. It incorporates a reliable and fully redundant power supply to enable 99.9% uptime to all equipment as well as smart cooling systems to recycle waste heat. Solar energy and rainwater harvesting are also used for day-to-day operations.

Will Google be placing their equipment there? The IDC with sheer size is carrier neutral and recently in joined the consortium of Malaysian ISPs to purchase international bandwidth at cheaper rate. Teliti also informed that 40% of the space already been booked by Multinational companies. Whether Google servers will be placed there or not this is certainly good for our economy. Thumbs up for Teliti International!

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Konsortium Rangkaian Serantau Sdn Bhd under the Entry Point Projects (EPPs), has been set up to buy international bandwidth for Internet traffic to lower the costs of Internet protocol (IP) transit,
The consortium comprises 24 members including Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM), Time Dotcom Bhd, Maxis Bhd, Celcom Axiata Bhd, DiGi.Com Bhd,U Mobile Sdn Bhd, Green Packet, YTL Communications Sdn Bhd,RedTone International Bhd, OCE, Fibrerail Sdn Bhd, Jaring, Sacofa, Sarawak Information Systems, Fibrecomm Networks (M) Sdn Bhd, and V Telecoms.

“The main objective in setting up the consortium is to lower the broadband subscription cost for users through cost savings as the subscription cost of international bandwidth capacity accounts for 40% of the total cost of providing broadband services.

StarBiz reported that the consortium may build and own an undersea cable network or partner other cable networks for capacity in a private-public partnership to address the problem of high IP transit cost.

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JARING Communications Sdn Bhd, an internet service provider, has named Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Yaacob as its new chief executive officer effective March 1.

Nik Abdul Aziz, a former senior director of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), replaced Dr. Mohamed Awang Lah, Jaring said in a statement yesterday.

An engineer by training, Nik Abdul Aziz, 42, was also a senior vice president with Khazanah Nasional Bhd from 2005 until 2008, in charge of major IT development projects

Read more: Nik Abdul Aziz is Jaring’s new chief executive

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This month we could see demand for local traffic increases. Aims IDC which selling local bandwidth separately shows increase of bandwidth utilization between AIMS (IDC provider) – TM (Broadband Provider). The IDC has been popular due to traffic segregation charges between local and international. Thumbs up for AIMS.

Aims-TM

Second graph shows intra traffic between Jaring and Aims

Jaring - Aims

Third graph shows intra traffic between Jaring – TM

TM - Jaring

We expect Aims-TM traffic would jump to 3Gbps (peak daily) with the absorption of new high speed broadband by TM – Unifi.

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KUALA LUMPUR, February 11 (Xinhua) — Malaysia’s telecommunication giant Telekom Malaysia (TM) will jointly construct a 400-kilometer submarine telecommunication cable linking Malaysia and Indonesia with its Indonesian partners.

An agreement on the joint project was signed in Kuala Lumpur on Friday between TM and its Indonesian partners, namely PT XL Axiata and PT Mora Telematika.

The cable will have two stretches with one connecting the Malacca State in the west coast of Peninsula Malaysia and Dumai, a city on the Sumatra Island of Indonesia.

The other one will connect Dumai and Batam, an island in the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia.

Named the Batam-Dumai-Malacca (BDM) Cable System, the new infrastructure consists of two fibre pairs, designed to provide 1. 28 trillion bytes per second (Tbps) adopting the Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology.

Once completed, it will also be able to provide upgradable, future-proof transmission facilities.

Rozaimy Rahman, executive vice president of TM’s subsidiary TM Global, told reporters at the signing ceremony that the project benefitted not only the consortium members, but also countries and regions connecting to each other directly serviced by the system.

He said that currently, there were two telecommunication cables connecting Indonesia and Malaysia.

The BDM Cable System would be an alternative if there was any breakdown in the existing cable systems, Rozaimy said, adding that it would help promote Malaysia as a transit hub for internet traffic.

XL Axiata is a mobile telecommunication operator, while Mora Telematika is a network and internet service provider.

Source : ChinaDaily

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Time dot com is targeting 1 thousand buildings in Kuala Lumpur to be wired up using their fiber optic technology. The speed provided is from 1-50Mbps. This is certainly great news. More players will certainly bring the price lower. Price of bandwidth and connectivity is still considered expensive. We hope the price of local bandwidth will be reduced further soon. This will benefit Malaysians in general. Many providers will certainly re locate their servers or place content delivery network server (CDN) locally. The only challenge facing local fibre optic is to get local council approval do lay down optic cables.

Time dot com

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Check out this graphic. It shows our main provider TM international connection. AAG cable is the latest addition to the connectivity. AAG launched recently in April 2010.

TM International connection.

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